Around the NFL: Making a right out of a wrong

There is no “I” in team, it is said. It cannot be argued that there is no “L” in right tackle. We’re not just talking about the 10th letter in.

A team might find itself racking up “L” after “L” and “L” after “L” if it has right tackle problems. For the Browns, there has been trouble — and plenty of it — at both spots on the right side of the line.

Ryan Tucker was a good right tackle, one of the reasons the 2002 team went 9-7 and went up by 17 points in a playoff game at Pittsburgh.

After that, Tucker had trouble staying on the field.

Since that lone playoff year, Tucker, Joaquin Gonzalez, Kirk Chambers, John St. Clair, Oniel Cousins, Artis Hicks, Tony Pashos and others have been part of a right tackle parade. The second-best season in that period was 10 losses. Good grief.

It has been as bad or worse at right guard, where the visitors list has included Paul Zukauskas, Kelvin Garmon, Cosey Coleman, Seth McKinney, Rex Hadnot, Pork Chop Womack, Billy Yates and Shaun Lauvao.

At this point, it appears Lauvao or 2011 left guard Jason Pinkston will bring “continuity” to the right guard spot. Pashos may be back at right tackle, against strenuous objections from the experts who buy the tickets — but he’s aging and won’t be there much longer.

The Browns are finishing their study of massive Georgia Bulldog Cordy Glenn to conclude whether he would turn right tackle from a trouble spot into a strength.

Glenn was not a good enough left tackle to be a high first-round pick, but he is a strong enough overall line prospect to be seen as a later Round 1 candidate.

Some analysts see him as a guard, the position he played in his first three seasons at Georgia before making first-team All-SEC as a left tackle in 2011.

Analyst Mike Mayock seems convinced right tackle will be Glenn’s best pro position.

He’s certainly tall enough and heavy enough, the specifics of which will be made precise at the Combine.

It might take him a while to excel as a right tackle. None of his 50 college starts was there.

NFL Draft Scout on Glenn: “Scouts aren't only impressed with his versatility. They're left in awe at the athleticism demonstrated by the 6-5, 338-pound mountain of a man.”

The Browns might be left in a lurch unless they get that right side straightened out.

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Reports on Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd suggest he will go close to where the Browns have a second first-round pick, at No. 22 overall.

Analyst Mike Mayock says Floyd “cleaned himself up on and off the field.”

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Floyd was arrested three times on alcohol-related issues while at Notre Dame, most recently on a DUI charge last March.

He is tall without blazing speed. The Browns would have to convince themselves he has something Brian Robiskie lacked.

Floyd is generally viewed as the second-best receiver in the draft after Justin Blackmon.

• Time flies. Jim Brown, who has faded from view in Berea, turned 76 on Friday. He was a 28-year-old running back on the Browns’ last league championship team. Lou “The Toe” Groza wore No. 76 on that team.